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Updated August 12, 2017 08:57 PM EDT

The two men killed in the helicopter crash on Saturday night that officials said was linked to the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier in the day have been identified as Lt. H. Jay Cullen and Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates.

Cullen had joined the Virginia State Police Aviation Unit in 1999 and is survived by his wife and two sons.

Bates, who would have been 41 on Aug. 13, had graduated from the Virginia State Police Academy in 2004.